skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider the anti-tracking browser extensions that gain enough popularity they get bought by ad tracking companies. Is that also legitimate?
Bayesian statistics at work.

If a mechanic or a car salesman speaks to the man he'll be correct 99% of the time. Same for a pram salesman talking to the woman.

I blame these monkeys: https://www.livescience.com/22677-girls-dolls-boys-toy-truck...
> Islām is a race.

Muslim here, that sounds absurd. In fact one of my biggest annoyances is when people view all Muslims around the world as single entity. Every stupid trait of every Muslim majority culture gets blamed on entire Muslim world.
Pinecone: The Vector Database for Machine Learning
I could sense this sort of problem even in CS and could not wait to get into an applied position as soon as possible. If you cannot build the thing you’re an expert in, you’re no kind of expert I understand.
I run[1] an open-source hosting company focused on privacy, so self-hosting everything[1] we use provides an extra layer of guarantees regarding security and privacy.

Plus, if something goes down, we have no one to blame but ourselves, which I see as a nice guarantee for customers as well — there is no lying or blaming the other guy.

[1] That is being generous. We have a few customers in a closed beta, but need to wait until the European borders are open before launching.

[2] Except for our XMPP, email, and EteSync servers, we self-host everything else. These will eventually be self-hosted as well.
As the primary caregiver for my daughter over the past 10 years, social bias been a constant challenge. For school and extra curricular activities we just list my contact information, and even then, somehow, my wife is the first (and only parent) to receive invitations, notices or other communication. The best hack is to have a generic-sounding email that doesn't include the father's name; or list my number under her name (you get hangups though), or only populate my number under the "home" telephone. This way, my contact has chance of being used by someone searching exclusively for the mother's contact information. Things got better when my daughter became old enough to say: "please call my dad, his number is .... ".
You still possess a right to a portion of the company which has an underlying value. The company is then essentially a store of value, just like my gold ETF. I have no right to access the gold directly but it has value because of the underlying.
What is conservative media at this point? What even-handed voices are . . . left?
> Many texts are filled with odd characters or appear to be normal HTTP links

From random @gmail.com addresses, right? I've gotten a lot of those recently. Probably because registering new email addresses and sending messages to each carrier's email to text bridge is free.
I tried compressing BC7 (from AMD-s Compressonator) using lz4c and it wasn't much.

Just re-ran it (with -hc, version 1.9.3(latest now)) and: "Compressed 5592544 bytes into 5413783 bytes ==> 96.80%".

7z with "7z a -mx=9 -t7z asd.7z albedo_PNG_BC7_1.KTX" does 5592544 bytes to 4844707 bytes (down to ~87%).

Original file is 10227047 bytes (PNG, RGBA), i can't remember if the ktx has mipmaps.

EDIT: Note that the image is fairly noisy (gravel). Could/should be better with more "artificial" textures.

I don't know if ktx does some extra compression, but, looking at it, i doubt it.

PS I think that BC could be massaged at compression to be better compressible, and i think i read something about that. Don't remember.
Almost none. PBS is known to lie and stealth retract stories when caught, including in one instance by calling an innocent bystander a "white nationalist" after they were attacked in a car by someone brandishing a gun during a protest (evidence was stealth removed). AP has issued multiple retractions for whopping lies, including using images of kids in cages and claiming they were under the Trump administration, when the images were taken during the Obama administration (afterwards they nuked all evidence, of course).
JavaScript: Undefined vs. Null Revisited
Anything to do with crowds is particularly susceptible to photographic interpretation, deliberately done or otherwise. And the tendency, unless the photographer is deliberately trying to make a crowd look sparse is probably to show a lot of people because that generally makes for a more interesting photograph if the crowd is in some sense the story.
Not only that, but modern compilers are insanely good at compiling numerical Fortran code. The very first optimizing compiler was for Fortran and it's consistently been on the forefront of compiler techniques ever since.
Note that I am confident about the first clause in your summary and less confident about the second. What I'm sure of is that "Newsweek" was purchased as a skeevy ploy to acquire the journalistic reputation of Newsweek (without acquiring or investing in any of the infrastructure that created that reputation). Lots of sources claim Newsweek, in a manner similar to the Epoch Times, also has a pronounced partisan lean; I'm less sure of that, but more sure that when you look at the bylines of "Newsweek" stories, you often find content mill writers.
Nope. I wasn't aware of the memes. I saw when GME hit $38 from $19 and thought I had already missed the bus.
Actually I see them as weight that prevents the industry to move forward.
I've actually never had a skip-level one-on-one. What do you think you get the most out of them?
What does Apple's Wi-Fi Password Sharing do? Share the password between a user's device? With other users? Based on location, contacts?
Maybe they have learned that the primary contact doesn’t respond as quickly?

My partner is listed as my primary emergency contact, and my mother is my second. But my partner isn’t always by her phone like my mother is, so if there were emergency calls happening frequently, I could see how staff would just know to call my mother.

The story lacks nuance, it’s just someone looking to be victimized; woe is me, the answerer of my child’s daycare phone calls.
Google to stop using Apple tool to track iPhone users, avoiding pop-up warning
Yes. Good point about the clarification!
If they are using the money saved on taxes to sell their products cheaper, then it is not themselves (only) that they are enriching thereby, but (also) you and I and everyone else who buys IKEA products. The consumers end up being the ones paying less money into governmental coffers.
Wikipedia is overall great, though highly politicized in some topics, for science/engineering topics there's actual review by other Wikipedians and sourcing is solid.

Moreover, the talk page always has anything that might be controversial about the article that you might be interested in.

Sure, it will rarely display incorrect data, but it happens less and less as antivandalism bots become smarter.
The title seems misleading to be honest. It makes it sound like they should be giving a phone call to each parent turn by turn for any piece of information.
Friedman has been irrelevant for about 10+ years now. He, Carl Bernstein and Paul Krugman are characatures of their former selves. I guess the statement is true for the new York times overall, as they have become a lifestyle magazine, of sorts.
Life is hard enough without social media.

You will be harshly judged on social media and treated with contempt.
And that's something a lot of JS haters have overlooked. I have purposely ignored it for the past few years and am just now getting back into it for doing CLI and back-end Node work... I find myself amazed at what's been added and improved since I was writing jQuery and AngularJS a few years back. I still have no interest in getting back into DOM work if I can avoid it but Node is kinda nice!
The world may be rational, the human mind is definitely not (even when we believe so) - for some people, believing in a higher entity helps. And they can work harder because of it, or simply have better mental health.

Also, many scientists were/is religious, so let it be a personal choice, up until it doesn’t hurt others.
and from there to Zeiss..
Ask HN: Have you ever had a Plica Syndrome?
I have suffered from Plica Syndrome in both elbows and a knee for about 3 months. Doctors says it's from a computer usage over the years. Have you ever had this and did you manage to deal with it?
21th century USA Scylla and Charybdis: an equal parenting family wishing to include the father vs all other mothers demanding a woman-only group.
To put that in some sort of perspective, NOAA's highest resolution weather model uses 3000m grids and they are "only" simulating the thin layer of atmosphere over a single continent.
Kind of, but anonymous instead of pseudonymous and also (kind of) ephemeral.
Can We Standardize No_proxy?
I'm starting to wonder if mass media in general is bad for our mental health, and if we'd be better off unplugging as much as we can from everything - social media, TV, radio, Hacker News, etc. and spending more time with our community. I suppose the problem is, most communities are completely addicted to this stuff, so we're left in a situation where it's hard for most people to unplug for any long period of time without isolating themselves.
Also on an Iris (this very second) having moved from a Let's Split. I'm a HUGE proponent of hold/tap for modifiers and programming brackets. All the ones I use most are under my thumbs with that change. I actually have symmetric modifiers on the thumbs because I effectively have double the keys. Also all my layer changes are from holding down F, D, or S which turns the right half into (respectively) arrows, numpad, and symbol pad.
Giant Galaxies from the Universe’s Childhood Challenge Cosmic Origin Stories
11,000 acres is about equal to a square property 4 miles on each side. It's a noble gesture, and the best outcome would be to motivate others to do the same.

Makes me wonder how much property could be bought for preservation with a Go Fund Me?
The article goes out of its way to quote a Google engineer but doesn't bother talking to anyone at Mozilla outside of quoting bug comments?
Yes they might, but the difference is that "traditional" paste won't form an alloy with your CPU and heatsink and you can easily replace it.
Not sure what your backend is, but websockets are pretty straightforward with socket.io! Happy to help get you up to speed - don't hesitate to reach out (@maxverse on twitter, email in profile)

Great job figuring things out as you go, and I love the experience. Keep up the good work!
We created a speaker rider because journalism didn’t have one
Problem is more serious than that.

What is happening is that the bad studies are being used for policymaking.

Examples: the "nutrition pyramid" that encouraged carbohydrates and blamed health issues on animal-based food, was later found out to be based on research that was blatantly corrupt, with researchers getting bribes from food industry to manipulate or hide results (a case of hiding results: one researcher that found out that vegetable oil causes decrease of blood cholesterol, also found WHY it happened, but omitted that part from his paper... the reason is that cholesterol is needed for cell maintenance, and consuming only vegetable oils cause a deficit from it, the body pulls cholesterol from the blood to repair itself, and even that might not be enough, with some people suffering damage).

Or a lot of pharma circlejerking that turns into law or regulations.

Or the paper mentioned in the article, that was about video-games and aggression, with many countries passing laws regulating video game consumption based and such papers.

Or the original reason Cannabis was banned (long story short: part of the reason is that they wanted to ban hemp fibers, that was being an obstacle to some newly invented synthetic fibers, some of the government people involved, had stocks of Dupont and other fiber companies, and "accidentally" banned hemp fibers while "trying" to ban the drug, based on manipulated and fraudulent science).

Or more seriously: the papers that recommended "Austerity" and basically destroyed the livehoods of millions of people, later were found out to have math errors that changed the conclusion completely.

And the list goes and goes on.
A lot of things happened in the early 70s:

- Many overseas markets opened to more outsourcing. Nixon "going to China" was one of the big ones.

- The rest of the world had pretty much fully recovered from WWII and started being more competitive with US manufacturing.

- The collapse of Bretton Woods and the removal of the gold peg for the US dollar freed central banks to pursue aggressive monetary policy.

- Automation really took off in the 1970s, and the computer revolution really got going.

- Women entered the work force in large numbers. In case anyone misreads: I am not against this. I'm just pointing out the supply and demand effects.

- Unions started declining for numerous reasons including the rise of anti-union politics and corruption in unions themselves.

- Increased racial equality is another thing I'm not against, but I am forced to point out that it increases the supply of labor in many labor markets that had been at least partly closed to non-whites.

- Finally, more immigration is definitely on the list too.

... there's a lot more, but those are the big ones. Almost everything I listed is deflationary to labor prices. So many things hit in the 70s it's like the floor dropped out. It's amazing US labor has managed to hang on at all.
> dumb things you posted online as a kid

I'm very, very thankful that the internet didn't exist when I was a kid. And am very worried for my own children because it did when they were - I've been counseling them since they were old enough to use a computer that whatever they write will be there forever.
> Are people still peddling the hyperbole/lie that this was an attempted coup?

It's neither hyperbole nor a lie.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/06/coup-america-capitol-el...
Is there a good source of list of projects that have de-opened their projects? This seems like a historical artifact worth capturing.
Experimental Tests of Theology
Where did that quote come from? Excellent point.

Someone once commented on how we can't go for a drive in the car without having some music on to distract us from thinking. I wonder if we don't want to be alone with our thoughts.
Lazy buys into a dysfunctional framing: it’s far more common to have poor or conflicting incentives. If managers are just measuring by how many seats are full, they are rather by definition getting exactly what they asked for.
I agree. Software is "always new" but it often shouldn't be.

I work for an engineering services firm that does mostly embedded systems. I push hard for reuse, basing our work on standard platforms, etc. Unfortunately, client needs vary so much -- one client might need a wearable, another wants a large system that is mounted on a skid, another needs something to sit on a desktop, all with hugely different feature sets -- that it's difficult to find a small set of devices that we can reuse. So one of our big problems is that we're very often bidding on a project that uses a device, or a technology we've never seen before and that's where the uncertainty comes in.

Patterns certainly help, higher-level languages would definitely help (I'm the only one in the organization programming small processors in C++, everyone else is only comfortable with C), but that's a slow, risky change.
I think the main use-case is sharing the Wifi password from your iPhone to your Apple Watch or iPad.

But it also works with people in your contacts if you are already connected to a network (let's say your home network) and a friend is trying to connect to that same network.
What the fuck kind of social media are you guys talking about? Reddit and 4Chan?

I use Facebook, everyone (that's people I know in person) is extremely nice to me on there, never got any contempt at all. We share pictures and funny memes and plan events on there. I used Facebook to reconnect with a childhood friend who I lost touch with and now we talk all the time. My husband did the exact same thing with Myspace a decade before.
For one, consider the institutions and nations that the research is from. It's too bad that journals are not more discriminating, but we as consumers of articles can be.
>ou can more easily ignore online comments than real life comments.

Not always the case I don't think(your over all point still stands though). An anectodtal example, I've been thrown some racial & very insensitive slurs at sports bar/convenience store late night, but seeing the person/the state the person throwing the slur is in (intoxicated) can make it way easier to just brush it off. Being thrown an insult in say, StackOverflow by someone that have provable trackrecord of excellence can be quite more demoralizing.

The absence/existence of additional information about the person throwing the slur can make the whole difference, and that can exist/not exist on both internet and real life.
Anal swabs now used for COVID testing in China
I love the idea of a future historian looking back at the timeline of human history, seeing immense suffering (including worse pandemics), and laughing at us for thinking our struggle is important enough to create a new era. Perhaps they’ll just accept it (like how we accept year 0), but the thought is very entertaining.
There isn't a command line argument for pointing to a .fim/ located elsewhere, if that's what you mean. It probably wouldn't be hard to add that to the utility.

What you could do is put your photos subdirectory inside another directory, something like below.

data/
├── .fim
│ ├── settings.json
│ └── states
│ └── state_1.json.gz
├── photos
└── records
Sanofi says it will help produce 100M doses of Pfizer’s vaccine
Go here for guidance: https://docs.racket-lang.org/getting-started/index.html

Check 'Getting started' above, but I'd suggest that if you are already a developer, start with the Racket Guide, and 'How to Program Racket: a Style Guide' both available in the documentation site https://docs.racket-lang.org (and bundled with the installer). The Racket Guide is fully integrated with the Reference - click on something and it will take you to the reference for the full definition.

It's also worth working through HTDP https://htdp.org - with the caveat that you are using the teaching languages. A really nice thing is Racket can support students/learners, without compromising the full language. The Racket installer includes Racket, proper, the teaching languages, and a number of other languages.
Your phone probably isn't compromised.

It's common where I am to get spam phone calls that spoof Caller ID to match the area code and first 3 digits of your own number, to appear "local" and make you think it might be someone you know.

I tend to get calls in bursts. Sometimes it's the same robocall 3 times a day for a week.

Phone companies also reuse numbers, and their lists of active numbers leak now and then, so even if you get a "new" number, you can still get spam. I don't know how feasible it is for spammers to wardial every number, but it might be possible.

And I think there used to be a bug where certain characters in a text could crash am iPhone, or something to that effect.

Apple has spam detection in the Messages app now. If it's anything like email, spammers will try anything to bypass it, like replacing characters.

So in conclusion, there's not much you can do about it until phone companies fix Caller ID.
> Children are very sensitive to their status in society, but we forget this because we grew out of that. Those of us on the successful side of things anyway.

We don't outgrow that. Adults are very status conscious too.
Show HN: Pass emails received to your API
To call it intellectual violence tends to justify the use of force to oppose it. And it softens the definition of violence by inappropriate analogy. Even in the extreme case you describe, and even assuming that such questions are insincere (which I don't), it's still only rude and annoying behavior, far from violence.
If you have not seen it, the documentary "The Social Dilemma" (currently only available on Netflix) goes over this in detail, with first-hand accounts from the people who created the "addiction algorithms"... as well as references to research on how self-harm and suicide attempts in teens and pre-teens has skyrocketed since the advent of social media.
> some kind of filter where things disappeared

Well, people can delete ill-advised tweets, but it doesn't matter - if somebody else screen-shotted it, they can hang on to the screenshot for as long as they like and use it against you when you run for congress some day.
Startup founder discovered equal pay across roles didn't work
It's obviously not a factual statement about reality though, it's a personal belief. At most that belief acts as a target to reach in an eventually-consistent type of manner.

I'm struggling to find the purpose of the article, it seems like beliefs of any nature can occupy the title "crony"?
Social media (and the attention economy) are worse for young brains than drugs.

If you came up with a substance that caused young people by the millions to become totally addicted, cost them multiple hours per day, pushed them into depression and suicide, and contributed to inactivity, obesity, loss of attention span, and overall ennui, it would be banned almost immediately.

Heck, if you proposed a tracking system that kept track of kids' whereabouts, social connections, and required them to post identifying information and photos, as well as gather their interests and political leanings, it'd be illegal.

The fact that we allowed companies to do these two things together while making money off it is absolutely astounding to me.
You connect to wifi in my house (or anywhere where I am connected to a password protected netwrok). If we both have BT enabled and are in each others contact list, I am given an option to share the password with you. If I click yes, your UI will not show the password, but connect directly to the wifi. Pretty solid UX. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209368
"St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go...

I owe my soul to the company store."

-- Sixteen Tons by Merle Travis, performed by Tennessee Ernie Ford
‘Unicorn’ Discovery Points to a New Population of Black Holes
Modern life is indeed terrible. Being depressed sucks.

I think there is a missing institution that should exist to protect people from market effects.

The raw edge of the market is driving a wedge into people's lives. People need to be protected but they're just a few decisions away from loss.

Society doesn't do enough for the losers of the world, it's a winner take all system.
My definition is you are rich if you don't have to work to live. If your continued survival depends on selling your labor for money, you're not rich. If you survive based on the ownership of assets rather than selling your labor, you are rich.
The Culture doesn't have money, nor scarcity.
I don't know if improving education and encouraging critical thinking is actually the silver bullet one may hope it is. HN considers itself a cohort with significantly more critical thinking ability, but it will make wide and unsubstantiated, highly upvoted comments whenever a political subject comes up involving censorship, hallucinogens, systemic oppression, or unions.

Of course, HN is also an invaluable resource when it comes to tech and sometimes other STEM subjects. It's just significantly less valuable for areas completely outside of it. I wouldn't trust HN as a neutral or critically thinking source for, say, the usefulness (or lack of usefulness) of gender studies.
The Ghosts of Mark Fisher
> A large portion of our society

As evidenced by three anecdotes?
I think it is Relevant precisely because skew the metrics When we talk about land-use.If it is left out people can make all kinds of misinformed Conclusions.